Sentences with phrase «better in schools across the state»

White students from poor families are doing better in schools across the state than black students from families with money.

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The U.S. Food Waste Challenge calls on entities across the food chain — farms, agricultural processors, food manufacturers, grocery stores, restaurants, universities, schools, and local governments — to join efforts to reduce and better manage food loss and waste in the United States.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomIn 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classroomin 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

It's all here on our education page: newspaper articles on education, education blog articles, as well as in - depth coverage of state testing and other issues affecting schools, both in Tampa Bay and across Florida.

He is the supervising psychologist for the Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than five hundred schools across the United States, as well as in international schools in Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

In addition, the Family Support unit at the Center for Schools and Communities offers supplemental PAT oriented and broader professional development opportunities to PAT providers and other early care and education professionals across the Commonwealth t hrough regular webinars, specialized workshops as well as annual regional or state meetings.

«It is good to see that voters across our state support healthy meals in schools as a means to help all kids excel in the classroom.»

«This is the state where I have been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ equality and for women's health and women's rights, including a woman's right to choose, and in the last 17 years, I have been traveling across this state fighting for better public schools for my kids but also for all of New York's kids,» Nixon said.

Moderated by NYCAN Executive Director Derrell Bradford, the panel featured leaders in the education reform movement as well as public school parents from across the state.

Vos said replacing money generated from the property tax levy with state dollars is a better approach to property tax relief than trying to do it through the school aid formula, which he said results in winners and losers across the state.

«These schools would provide a high quality, culturally relevant curriculum; health, social and emotional services in high needs communities for both students and their families; and sahre best practices across the state and nation,» she wrote in the letter.

The vote in the Senate coincides with school districts across the state putting their budgets before voters, as well as the release of a report showing $ 7.6 billion in savings from the cap.

An on - time state budget is good news for school districts across the state, as they plug in the hard numbers to proposed budgets.

Like their colleagues across New York, Saugerties school officials listened intently to governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State last week, hoping to hear good news in the proposed 2016 - 17 budget and other educational initiatives.

the best economy of scale would be for State Government to facilitate savings in healthcare and pension for municipalities and schools across the sState Government to facilitate savings in healthcare and pension for municipalities and schools across the statestate.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

Now that the state budget is passed, school boards across New York have a better idea of what to expect in school aid as they work on budget plans that will go before the voters next month.

He believes the Common Core standards are working well in many schools across the state.

«We are so lucky to have one of the world's best teachers right here in the NSW public schools system and now we would like to see Eddie's magic rubbing off on our educators across the State,» Ms Berejiklian said.

This is in addition to the $ 692 million recently announced to upgrade 91 public schools across the State as part of the Building Better Schools program, as well as investment in four new public sschools across the State as part of the Building Better Schools program, as well as investment in four new public sSchools program, as well as investment in four new public schoolsschools.

So the findings are very significant, and I mention that because these have yet to really drive policy across the United States and this is another example where good educators and then, in this case, good business people working together have really discovered a new element of a high school experience.

Across the portfolio, CMO schools perform somewhat better in math than in reading, when benchmarked against their local peers on state assessments.

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

The United States is engaged in an ongoing, public discussion about how to best expand afterschool time and opportunities for children and youth, to support their learning and development across the day, throughout the year, and from kindergarten through high school.

In our site - based work, which included in - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by student socioeconomic compositioIn our site - based work, which included in - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by student socioeconomic compositioin - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by student socioeconomic composition.

In cities and towns all across my home state of Massachusetts, school administrators and teachers» unions are engaged, usually well out of public view, in the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaininIn cities and towns all across my home state of Massachusetts, school administrators and teachers» unions are engaged, usually well out of public view, in the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaininin the periodic and exhausting ritual of collective bargaining.

The investigation is supported by bank of America Merril Lynch and will seek to determine the current state of careers education across state schools in England, as well as identify the most effective types of careers education.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

... So, across Queensland I had 1000 students, spread from Cairns to Coolangatta, Mount Isa to Mackay, representative of the three educational sectors (state, independent and Catholic), also representative of the location of the school, not just along the eastern seaboard but out in the bush as well.

«The changing exclusion rates make it difficult to draw accurate judgments about school improvement and student progress in many schools, as well as across the system as a whole,» the report states.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.

With summer immersion programs and afterschool clubs in schools and homeless shelters across the United States, Saujani says that Girls Who Code is «really showing [young girls] and opening their eyes to how technology can help them be problem solvers and change agents» that will help make the world a better place.

To better understand why charter schools choose to opt in or out of pension plans, we administered surveys to a random sample of schools across the five states.

Washington, D.C. (February 21, 2018)-- States are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the coStates are pursuing innovative policies and using best practices to improve the nation's schools, and a coalition of organizations representing America's chief state school officers, legislators, state board members and state education policy leaders today announced a campaign to highlight the progress underway in states across the costates across the country.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

The results appear to be telling parents whether their child's school is doing a better job than the one across town, in the neighboring city, or across the state.

The scores, along with an accompanying number ranking schools across the state from 1 10, were promoted by web sites like GreatSchools.org, and became a marketing tool for real estate agents to sell houses in neighborhoods with «good» schools.

The school's results are nothing short of superlative: BINcA has consistently bested state averages in academic measures across the board, including post-secondary attendance and graduation rates.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

Charter school operators with good track records would be able to apply to open new schools across the state, although the performance thresholds will be lower in areas where traditional school districts perform poorly and are in high - poverty areas.

High school students assessed in the Performance Assessment model, who demographically include far more low - income, English - language learner and special education students than the state overall, have shown better high school graduation rates and college enrollment and graduation rates than stdents across the state.

How One Elementary Achieved a 10 - Point Gain on Scores.Like many elementary schools across the United States, Ballantyne Elementary in Charlotte, North Carolina, sought innovative ways to help its students master science concepts, and perform better onstandardized tests.

In partnership with the Mississippi Department of Education, National Board Certified Teachers will work directly with students in their classrooms, as well as with other teachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across the statIn partnership with the Mississippi Department of Education, National Board Certified Teachers will work directly with students in their classrooms, as well as with other teachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across the statin their classrooms, as well as with other teachers in their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across the statin their schools and districts, to transform literacy teaching for K - 3 students across the state.

From the data, we can conclude that the top 5 private high schools in America in 2018 are well spread out nationally which is an indication of how well the private education sector in the united states is well funded and run across all Sstates is well funded and run across all StatesStates.

Dr. Cruz believed the path to improvement in student learning would require strengthening compliance with new state - level expectations, better vertical alignment of curriculum across the schools, and more effective collaboration within the district.

During the academic year, 1,500 Year 9 students from state and independent schools across United Learning competed for the chance to design an app addressing one of their learning needs, which would then be created and sold in the App Store.The first stage of this was a 21 - day roadshow, which saw 7billionideas staff visit 38 United Learning state and independent schools around the country to launch the competition and to teach students how best to generate ideas, refine a creative concept and build confidence in their own business skills.

The Leading Outstanding Learning Programme (LoL) is a CPD programme for teachers which provides an opportunity to learn from experiences and best practice in a wide range of schools from across South Yorkshire (including outstanding state and independent schools, rapidly improving and ethnically diverse inner city schools and a newly created «school within a school»).

Furthermore, the most recent state test scores showed that Denver performed better than most districts in the state, showing commendable improvements in turnaround schools located in Far Northeast and Northwest Denver, even though the district is still far from its own goal of 3.5 percent improvement in growth across all subjects.

Rep. Kelly chaired the appropriations sub-committee that approved an increase to MCAN's total state support that allowed it to fund vital programs including AdviseMI, which placed 40 recent college graduates to serve as college advisers in 51 high - need high schools across the state as well as the Reach Higher program, awarding grant funds to 100 high schools.

Red State Or Blue State, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the sState Or Blue State, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the sState, Parents Want Good Education Options November 23, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last week, hundreds of parents, educators, and students in Massachusetts marched across the Boston Commons and rallied near the State House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the sState House as part of an effort to increase the number of charter schools available in the statestate.